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with jennifer still in the bank, the manager made a chilling call to 911. prosecutors say these two men, steven hayes and -- were terrorizing the family. beating dr. petit with a baseball bat and tying him to this pole in the base. his two daughters tied to the beds upstairs. all of them tortured all night. william could hear his family being tortured upstairs. >> i heard the moaning and the thumps, he testified. somehow bleeding from his head, he managed to escape, his feel still bound, petit hopped out of the house and made it to the neighbor's house for help. the suspects raped and strangled jennifer petit and burned the house down. the mother and her two daughters were all killed. >> this has been such an emotional trial. the evidence here so incredibly gruesome that four jurors, even in the first week of this trial, have already been dismissed. one of them said he couldn't follow the evidence because it was so confusing. some of the jurors were sobbing. the petit family was sobbing in court. william petit did himself. just a couple moments ago he did w
with jennifer still in the bank, the manager made a chilling call to 911. prosecutors say these two men, steven hayes and -- were terrorizing the family. beating dr. petit with a baseball bat and tying him to this pole in the base. his two daughters tied to the beds upstairs. all of them tortured all night. william could hear his family being tortured upstairs. >> i heard the moaning and the thumps, he testified. somehow bleeding from his head, he managed to escape, his feel still bound,...
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hawke-petit to the bank to get money to pay a ransom and there is the surveillance video of jennifer hawke-petit trying to get that money and they burn the house down and some of the testimony has just been so awful and talked about what happened inside of that house before it burned down the sexual assaults and i don't want to get init it any more than that. the sexual assaults and one of the little girls, the 11-year-old girl and just about how william petit escaped. it's so hard for him to hear, william petit he had to walk out of the courtroom because it was too disturbing to look at his family burned. >> do we know how they were targeted? >> random, a random home invasion which is one reason this case has gotten the national and international attention because you think to yourself, especially in cheshire, connecticut, a nice neighborhood. we don't even lock the doors around here. this was one of those towns. it was random. it could happen to anybody at any time, it appears. >> thanks, as always. >> thanks, thomas. >>> protecting young athletes from concussions. a new push to pu
hawke-petit to the bank to get money to pay a ransom and there is the surveillance video of jennifer hawke-petit trying to get that money and they burn the house down and some of the testimony has just been so awful and talked about what happened inside of that house before it burned down the sexual assaults and i don't want to get init it any more than that. the sexual assaults and one of the little girls, the 11-year-old girl and just about how william petit escaped. it's so hard for him to...
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she tells 911, here's jennifer hawke-petit's name, here's her address, here's what just happened. police and officers to the home but they just stand outside for the next 30 minutes while the family is being tortured inside. now, look, we have the benefit of hindsight, 20/20. >> of course. >> they didn't. they said we had no idea there was violence going on inside. so 30 minutes go by. police are setting up the perimeter outside. william petit, the man on the left side of your screen. he is able to escape. gets to a neighbor's house. a neighbor calls 911 and police still don't go in, and then suddenly the home lights on fire and the suspects come running out. by then it was too late, the wife and children were dead. >> what role is this playing in defense? >> yesterday in court it was a very ugly team. there's a police captain on stand and the defense says in essence my client isn't fully to blame because you guys didn't do your job fast enough to protect the victims from my client. it's a very bizarre sort of strategy. defense basically blamed the police for that not doing their
she tells 911, here's jennifer hawke-petit's name, here's her address, here's what just happened. police and officers to the home but they just stand outside for the next 30 minutes while the family is being tortured inside. now, look, we have the benefit of hindsight, 20/20. >> of course. >> they didn't. they said we had no idea there was violence going on inside. so 30 minutes go by. police are setting up the perimeter outside. william petit, the man on the left side of your...
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which one is bridget fonda and which one is jennifer jason leigh. i don't know what's going on sdmm! >> we're going to be talking about that a little bit more later on in this hour. >>> first, we have to bring you this. today's stone cold stupid criminal. check out the guy at the convenience store. he first basically looks at the surveillance camera and then he puts on the darth vader mask, then he puts it on. this is at a convenience store near detroit. this is one of the world's dumbest criminals. thanks to his unintended mugshot, they expect to catch him in short order. >>> give on the chance, would you fly to outer space? boeing is getting ready to get into the space tourism business and they hope to win a nasa contract to take astronauts into the international space station. it will have seven seats, room potentially for space tourists to go along. the costs is estimated to be in the tens of millions of dollars. is that for the space capsule or how much to fly? tens of millions of dollars? no can do. >>> a big night in the nation's capital last
which one is bridget fonda and which one is jennifer jason leigh. i don't know what's going on sdmm! >> we're going to be talking about that a little bit more later on in this hour. >>> first, we have to bring you this. today's stone cold stupid criminal. check out the guy at the convenience store. he first basically looks at the surveillance camera and then he puts on the darth vader mask, then he puts it on. this is at a convenience store near detroit. this is one of the...
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the defense says, yes, my client raped and killed jennifer petitt. the key here is will this deft steven hayes get the death penalty or not? he offered to plead guilty if prosecutors took the death penalty off the table. prosecutors said no, that's how airtight they believe their case is. he and another man allegedly broke into the home three years ago in a suburban upscale neighborhood here in krthd. middle of the night the family was sleeping. tortured them. led them to a bank to take out $15,000. ended up killing them and burned their house down. on the stand today the lone survivor told in his testimony, told the jury the defendant said if he gives them what yo want we won't hurt you. i may have yelled out hey, and then a voice yelled back at him saying don't worry. it's all going to be over in a couple of minutes. in fact, prosecutors have said that that the testimony that the jury will hear, the audience will hear in this case, will rock your inner core because of what this man went through. he said he was tied up by his wrist an inkels. his fa
the defense says, yes, my client raped and killed jennifer petitt. the key here is will this deft steven hayes get the death penalty or not? he offered to plead guilty if prosecutors took the death penalty off the table. prosecutors said no, that's how airtight they believe their case is. he and another man allegedly broke into the home three years ago in a suburban upscale neighborhood here in krthd. middle of the night the family was sleeping. tortured them. led them to a bank to take out...
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that is some of the money on your screen that jennifer hawke-petit took out to try to pay off the men that held them hostage. they said they would let them go, but, clearly, that wasn't the case. the prosecutor said, yes, my client did commit these crimes, but he should not be put to death. the defense said this was a robbery that got out of control. he should get life in prison with no chance of parole, but not the death penalty. prosecutors won't take that deal. they want the death penalty. this is a capital case, tamron. >> thanks, jeff rossen, the latest on that trial happening in new haven, connecticut. >>> right now in london outgoing bp ceo tony hayward is testifying about the gulf oil disaster. back in june he insisted he had little knowledge of decisions that contributed to the explosion aboard the deepwater horizon oil rig that killed 11 workers and, of course, triggered the massive oil spill we all watched play out. he also made this infamous comment. back in may. >> there's no one who wants this thing over more than i do. i want my life back. >> well, joining me now from l
that is some of the money on your screen that jennifer hawke-petit took out to try to pay off the men that held them hostage. they said they would let them go, but, clearly, that wasn't the case. the prosecutor said, yes, my client did commit these crimes, but he should not be put to death. the defense said this was a robbery that got out of control. he should get life in prison with no chance of parole, but not the death penalty. prosecutors won't take that deal. they want the death penalty....